The Illusion of Psychological Security - Alan Watts 📖 The Wisdom of Insecurity Summary
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- This is a book summary of The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts. How do you make peace with nihilism and meaninglessness, the cosmic absurdity? Watts shares timeless spiritual and existential lessons and principles relating to the Tao, Buddhism, Zen, and more.
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Alan “that is to say” Watts
Alan. “well now”. “In exactly the same way. Watts
8:04 A lot of people delude themselves into believing that they aren’t anywhere near as attached to the worldly pleasures that they indulge in and the ‘game’ they play everyday, but it is only once you lose something/someone that you are deeply attached to before you realize just how possessive you’ve become of the person/thing/state of being. It is far more difficult to practice non-attachment while indulging in pleasure than many people realize, it’s impossible, really. Clinging and craving is inevitable.
I’ve read this book and currently listening to it in audio format. I’ve struggled to pinpoint exactly what he’s getting at or how to explain it to someone else. This video helps. Thank you!
This is a rare good book summary video
"The map is not the territory." - Alfred Korzybski "The menu is not the meal." - Alan Watts.
Complicated
Lol ty
That word dread and the ad of cred was so perfectly timed.
Listening to Alan Watts is always a great experience. "So then" thanks for creating this good illustration. 👍🏻
POCATELDIMC - I relaxed, then the answer came to me with little effort, as I typed the letters in Google Search and found a site with the answer. It wasn't complicated to find the answer.
Another great video and summary.
Actually it was complicated.
What an excellent video. You sir, deserve a lot more views! Keep up the great work, you have earned yourself a new sub!
Brandon you are an inspiration your videos have help me find peace in my life thanks for taking your time to be authentic your much younger then me but I look up to me your a good leader. Keep mentoring us men and even women in your audience much love
I guarantee that most of the implications of this summary went over the audience's head.
And that is good.
Oh yeah. Not to say this video is worthless, but it's an incredible book that has to be read to really be plunged into it (and hopefully see the futility of the need to be perfectly secure and perfectly belong that society preaches so much)
That was amazing thank you for this
Loved this
Belief clings and faith lets go.
Wow so deep and yet so basic that if we used this more in our lives we would find a better life. ❤😊
great book! thanks
Yeah man, tq so much❤❤❤😊
Thanks for the video! I read the book but didn't totally get it. I'll try again now! Tip: put video at 0.75 speed
Alan Watts is so Complicated sometimes
GREAT content! But please, tell me the name of the song played in the end… appreciate it.
Thank you.
4:20 hmmm
COMPLICATED
4:40 i thought it would mention that i can land in the side of the coin
stop thinking about it and go out and play
love this comment
Money represents why but is not why....2:55
That anagram is really complicated, I can't find the answer
We believe in you
I thought it was difficult and then I just gave up, I guess it was too complicated for u & i
it's *complicated* ...
Now I am 100% better.
I can’t understand the first two sentences of this video and in the book I never quite got it. Can someone explain?
To desire is to live is to suffer. We cannot eliminate suffering, otherwise we'd be mindless and do nothing. Doesn't mean we can't have joy, no matter where we are in life... Seems people think they can trade freedom with security and thus stop suffering, but you only transfer one type of suffering for another. We get joy by Slowing down the mind, Enjoying the Present (essentially the only thing that ever truly exists*), stop assuming so much about how life works or what will make us happy. & Real wealth isn't in societal constructs nor making people you dislike 'happy' by conforming. Essentially what I've gotten from his talks, lectures, and just living life.
*Even tho we function to see the recent past & upcoming future as real, if not more, than the present. Evolutionarily speaking, makes sense, our species can thrive in unpredictable times, but doesn't mean we should or have to accept all of what feels real to be real
Science is the faith that the future will behave like the past... I take issue with your definition here sir. What you're actually referencing is Empiricism, not Science. More specifically, it's 'inductive inference' or 'inductivisim.'
Also, your videos are hilarious, love your sense of humour. Can you add 'The Beginning of Inifinity: Explanations that transform the world' to your list of books to analyse?
I think you might have taken a wrong turn since he mentioned the word faith........I simply think as humans we can't solve or create things by ourselves......everything we use,create and try to solve derive from something that you've seen or experienced regardless of how you feel that's just how it is.........name one thing that was created or made by humans that didn't derive from a sudden experience or past down knowledge
Wow
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:Who are you?
me: "I'm batman"
Regarding chapter one: Belief clings, Faith let's go... can you clarify? Isn't faith needed for most beliefs to be true (especially religious ones)?
E.g. I'm letting go by having faith, and my faith tells me god is real, which turns into a belief. Then I cling to to this belief because... I've let go of... Hold on... nope I'm very confused.
@@Gome.o "My faith tells me god is real" so you have distanced "faith" from yourself. When it tells you that god is real, you take it to be true. Why?
@@ohnree4110 I don’t understand your question can you rephrase it differently?
@@Gome.o I think the reason you are confused is because the word "faith" actually means "to believe" in a religious context. That's why you are stuck in a loop.
"Have faith in god" = "believe in god"/"believe that god will save you"
At least this is what I experienced in churches.
The "faith" that Alan watts is using is not in a religious context. Rather, it means, "to let go of anything that you think is unchangingly true."
The flow of life is change and possibility. You do something, things change; you do nothing, things change. Your life has never been exactly the same twice.
So to believe something--to accept something as unchangingly true--is to go against the flow of life.
The more beliefs you have, the more things you think are unchangingly true, the more you go against the flow of life.
This feeling of going against change and possibility, we call this suffering.
Alan Watts argues that a lot of people are suffering because they believe so many things. And in order to stop suffering, we need to have faith, which in this context means letting go of our beliefs and embracing change and possibility.
In the context of christianity, faith might look like embracing the infinitely new ways that god can appear in daily life. Instead of BELIEVING that he only appeared as jesus christ incarnate.
Can you see the difference now? Sorry for the long explanation.
@@ohnree4110 are you basically saying Have faith equates to believe things are in a constant flux of change?
Who are you, right now, right here, at this moment? Wait a second just passed, who are you now? Again what about now?
Law of "TH-camrs copying each other"
so what's the anagram solution?
you'll never get it, it's complicated
@@harrybellingham98 jokes on you, I'm going to use an online anagram solver and.... OH
@@harrybellingham98 I see what you did there :D
The media conversation referred to is a fluffy misrepresentation of an idea from Hume. Bad teaching: as said at the beginning, tell someone not to think of something, and they inevitably will - so then you/Watts say listen to music but be aware if you think about yourself doing it , you’re not listening to music - so compounding the problem. And I didn’t choose the cat.
that joke was so dry but funny lol
Yeah erm... good video and all but... I feel like I'm not getting the point of it. Like every time you switch to another chapter, I feel like you forgot to close the previous one properly... I don't really get it :1
Sounds like life and the desire for security...🧐
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Watching this with a confused face 90% of the time. Rewatching it now hmm
Second
No offense to anyone but Why all your video thumbnails have a pink background.....I know your channel color is pink but when every other video theme is same ,the effect is somewhat different than what should be.
Why are we still here just to suffer
I understand; believe me I do. 😌 I could be wrong, but there are many things in life that are unavoidable; suffering is one of them. We develop a variety of strategies & methods to avoid or escape suffering; but, this makes us a prisoner to those very schemes, causing us to suffer anyway, in a more complicated way. 🧐
There are no perfectly safe spaces, no constant fulfilment in staying still. Our whole being is designed to adapt, be social at least to some degree, and respond to threats more than enjoy the small things. It cannot be "overcome" but there are ways to live alongside suffering and enjoy life regardless... Idk why people think eliminating suffering would lead to constant pleasure anyways, they compliment each other
Buddhism
Interesting video, but wait: isn't this Heidegger philosophy?
Still confused 🤔
Hm Hm it's good .... Not that I get anything
After hearing the joe rogan example I'm out
when you try to sink you flow when you hold your breath you lose it? da fck are you talking about? when you are full of breath you rise like balloon not sinking like a boat...
Why do i feel like you are a hindu or a buddhist...???
Wtf was this video?
Complicated
Wow
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Lol ty
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